Confirm your Big Idea Topic

Your final project for this course, the Personal & Social Frameworks for Nutrition & Healthy Aging, offers you a great opportunity to review, synthesize and apply the information we've been exploring. You will use a bio-psycho-social approach (Units 1 & 2) or the social-ecological model (Units 5 & 6) as a framework for pondering how you might address a particular issue related to nutrition, wellness and aging.

YOUR BIG IDEA

Step One: Identify a challenge to healthy aging that has captured your interest during this course.

Step Two: Audit your local community to uncover existing resources that attempt to address this challenge. What is missing?

Step Three: Propose health promotion strategies that prevent, mitigate or manage this challenge. Be sure to include at least one strategy for each level of either the bio-psycho-social approach or the social-ecological model.

Step Four: Create a "Show & Tell" project artifact- something that captures the basic essence of your issue and approach/strategies. The format is up to you- could be a brochure, a video, a PowerPoint, poster, or ???

Step Five: Discuss, share and reflect upon each other's Show&Tell creations.

For now, you are encouraged to keep this overview in the back of your mind as you complete each unit. Pay attention to areas or issues that generate the most interest and energy for you- what intrigues you, what troubles you, what calls to you? When we get to Unit 6, we will begin a collaboration via a discussion forum “Synthesis & Action Forum for Brainstorming” to allow you to explore and discuss ideas for capstone projects with your colleagues. By the end of Unit 7, you will make a commitment to your project topic and spend Units 8 and 9 completing the Synthesis project- Your Big Idea. In Unit 10, you will review, learn from and comment on your colleagues' "Show & Tell" entries.

By the end of day [Day/Date] commit to the following and enter into the Google document linked at the end.

• State the Issue: In one sentence, what is the challenge to healthy aging that your Big Idea will address?
• Acknowledge Community Resources: Use this space to confirm that your idea lends itself to a community examination. (You do not need to list any resources at this time- simply confirm that you will include community resource audit in addressing your challenge issue.)
• Confirm Strategy Levels: Use this space to confirm that you will propose at least one strategy to address your topic challenge at each level of either biopsychosocial or social-ecological models. (You do not need to list these yet, just confirm you are aware that this is required and your topic lends itself to this examination.)

Enter your confirmed topic information here: Confirming Your Big Idea by end of day Wednesday.